Heads Up Hollywood

The Hulu matter has basically come to an end.

Within 1 month, the funds are in place.

Within 2 months, complete the signing of streaming media copyright authorization with major content providers.

Within 3 months, complete the formation of Hulu employees.

In April next year, the network will speed up! In May, launch the Hulu website!

In June next year, the Hulu beta will be officially launched.

After half a year of testing, in January 2007, the official version of Hulu was launched!

Although Tang En is not optimistic about Hulu's future competitiveness in the streaming media field, this is the first streaming media platform for professional film and television content that condenses the essence of Hollywood after all.

Standing on the tuyere, pigs can fly!

No matter how many disadvantages Hulu has, this venture cannot fail.

Even if Hulu will be squeezed miserably by emerging streaming media platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook in the future, standing in the wind is enough to ensure safety.

In another ten years, with a valuation of 10 billion US dollars, it will be very easy!

It is impossible for Tang En to participate in the investment and lose money.

In a few years, streaming media will become the general trend, and Hollywood will inevitably be moved by the news, and it will be impossible to share benefits.

Whether it is Comcast or Disney, they will definitely find ways to snap up the equity of Hulu everywhere, make Hulu their own brand, kick out all partners, and start eating alone.

Just like the Disney in the previous life, after several rounds of turnover and layer after layer of searching, it squeezed out Comcast and finally won Hulu.

This is normal business thinking.

At that time, Tang En can call out a high price, sell the 20% shares in his hand, and develop Netflix with peace of mind.

It is not in line with business logic to control Netflix and invest in Hulu at the same time.

Tang En's layout for the future is clear and accurate.

Every step is to make money!

No one wants to take advantage of him!

Of course, these are just Tang En's personal calculations.

A large number of people, not only Hollywood, but also many Wall Street and IT elites, are not optimistic about the future of streaming media, and believe that the traditional DVD industry is more popular in the market!

The United States can increase the speed of the Internet because of its superior conditions.

In order to lay optical fibers on a large scale, develop new network protocols, and promote network reforms, the seven major telecom operators in the United States have invested a total of more than 50 billion US dollars!

With such a large-scale investment, apart from the US telecommunications giants, who else in the world has such strength?

Therefore, high Internet speed can only exist in the United States.

Those overseas countries are still "narrowband" networks, which cannot adapt to high-definition streaming media at all.

Or DVD and high-definition video discs have more potential!

Technology giants, including Microsoft, hold this view and are busy promoting the HD-DVD that he cooperated with Toshiba.

This is typical American arrogance and arrogance.

They greatly underestimated the strength of those telecom giants overseas.

The Internet is a product of the Reagan administration's "Star Wars."

If the Internet is compared to a house, the United States is the homeowner, renting out the house to tenants, and launching a series of network protocols to establish usage rules. For example, narrowband protocols, broadband protocols, and mobile 2G, 3G, and 4G networks. Even allied countries such as Britain and France dare not develop an agreement of their own without authorization, and can only follow the old American rules.

Now that the broadband agreement is born, overseas telecom giants can fully implement it under the new rules.

Although it will lag behind the United States, it will never fall behind by too much!

That is, within a few years, broadband will be promoted all over the world, pushing the Internet wave to its peak!

Of course, some countries have a bad relationship with the "landlord" of the United States, and the landlord will charge the highest rent and provide the smallest space. The citizens will also suffer, and can only spend the highest Internet fee and use the slowest Internet.

Future benefits, more on that later.

Tang En will not miss the immediate benefits.

Isn't the overall environment pessimistic about streaming media and optimistic about traditional media such as high-definition video discs?

That's right!

Sony has already held a press conference. In January next year, it will officially show its Blu-ray technology and Blu-ray products to the whole society!

Blu-ray HD, which has been secretly developed for many years, will be officially unveiled!

At the same time, electronic companies such as Dell, Hitachi, Hewlett-Packard, Philips, Samsung, and Sharp, members of the Blu-ray Disc Organization, have also announced that they will launch high-definition players based on Blu-ray Discs next year!

The high-definition battle between Blu-ray and DV-DVD is about to start!

This news is undoubtedly great news for the entire DVD industry.

In the past year or so, HD-DVD has swept the high-definition market, and HD-DVD high-definition disc players alone have sold more than 4 million units, with an average price of $1,000 per unit!

This industry alone has an output value of 4 billion US dollars!

Now, a new high-definition format Blu-ray is coming.

Blu-ray high-definition DVD players can harvest another wave of market!

Almost all electronic manufacturing companies are eyeing it, working overtime, and want to take the lead in seizing this market.

Under the big tide, there is still an undercurrent surging.

Dolby Laboratories has thoroughly understood the Blu-ray technology and integrated the HD-DVD playback mechanism to develop a "Dolby" video disc that can play both HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs, and is also compatible with ordinary DVDs. machine!

Although it is not as compact and thin as the Samsung DVD player in terms of shape design, it is more powerful in function.

This is definitely an epoch-making product.

Even the production agreement has been signed, just wait for an order, and the Foxconn factory in China will start production in full swing!

This market must be seized as early as possible.

In 2001, the global sales volume of DVD players was 30 million units, among which the Sony DVD player, which wins in terms of quality, was priced at US$500-600, with an annual sales volume of 5 million units.

In the past year, 35 million DVD players were sold worldwide, and the sales of Sony DVD players dropped to 4 million, but the price was as low as 350-450 US dollars.

Why?

Because after the WTO, Chinese merchants joined the market!

In Wal-Mart supermarkets, you can see DVD players selling for only $50 everywhere, and they have occupied this market like dumping.

This is really cheap.

It is 70% to 80% cheaper than Sony, Philips, Samsung and other brands of DVD players, and the competitiveness is too strong.

The same goes for the high-definition video player market.

Get in quick!

Grab quick cash!

...

Wednesday, December 14.

The much-anticipated blockbuster "King Kong" is released!

The so-called much-anticipated comes from the great director of the film, Peter Jackson!

This New Zealand director is really hot right now!

The "Lord of the Rings" series has been terminated for more than two years, but in the ranking of the DVD rental industry in the past year, the movie with the highest rental volume is not Marvel's superhero blockbuster, or the "Pirate League" series starring Johnny Depp , nor the "Star Wars" series, but the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy!

The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy has even become the series with the highest DVD sales in history!

Peter Jackson's current reputation can be as famous as Twain and Spielberg!

Half a head taller than Cameron.

Now, King Kong is out.

On December 13, the early box office grossed 1.2 million US dollars.

On December 14, it grossed $9.75 million.

On December 15, it grossed $6.3 million.

Friday, December 16, grossed $14.5 million.

Saturday, December 17, $20.1 million.

Sunday, December 18, grossed $15.5 million.

This fierce commercial film frightened away all commercial blockbusters in the same period. Its box office in the first week... was only 67 million US dollars!

This is really eye-popping!

The production cost of "King Kong" was 210 million US dollars, and the publicity and distribution costs were 150 million US dollars. It can be called the film with the largest investment this year!

Coupled with Peter Jackson's personal 10% box office dividend clause... For this film to make a profit at the box office, the North American box office must reach 300 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office must exceed 750 million U.S. dollars!

As a result, the North American box office in the first week was only 67 million US dollars?

It's over!

Failed!

You know, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", which was released a month ago, had a North American box office of 110 million US dollars in the first weekend, and now the cumulative global box office has exceeded 700 million US dollars! With this posture, the global box office has firmly stood at the 900 million US dollar mark and is heading towards the 1 billion US dollar mark.

But what about "King Kong"?

Can it hit $500 million at the global box office?

For a time, public opinion suddenly rose.

Especially the film and television entertainment department, the atmosphere is very depressing.

The newly appointed chairman and CEO of the Film and Television Entertainment Department, Fernando Baden, looked even more painful, feeling that he was born at an untimely time.

He was originally the vice president of the finance department and the second in command of New Global Finance.

After being temporarily drawn by Tang En to manage the Film and Television Entertainment Department, it also achieved certain success, allowing the Film and Television Entertainment Department to withstand the pressure of the Hollywood industry, and leaving enough time for Tang En to launch a major counterattack against the Big Five alliance.

This is a great achievement.

I didn't expect to encounter "King Kong" and encounter such a thing.

This Peter Jackson, leaving the "Lord of the Rings" series, is a bit unreliable!

"King Kong" is the biggest project of New Universal this year, and it is the last blockbuster.

It turned out to be screwed up...

Sure enough, on this day, Tang En called him to the office.

Coming to Tang En's office dejectedly, Fernando Baden was the first to admit his mistake, and then said: "I have already communicated with Peter, he is very depressed now, and he apologizes to us deeply. He even said that if "King Kong" In the end, it really caused losses to Tang En Pictures, and he is willing to cut 5% of the dividends as compensation."

"Cutting dividends?" Tang En was a little surprised, and his impression of Peter Jackson was much better, "There is no need. Don't forget, he is Peter Jackson! It is much harder to lose money than to make money in his movies, at most It’s just making less money.”

"You mean the box office of "King Kong" will rise against the trend? Yes, the media has a good reputation."

Tang En shook his head and said: "No, the film length is 3 hours... It is impossible for "King Kong" to recover its investment through the box office. But don't forget, the field that Peter Jackson is best at has never been the box office market, but the video disc market!"

The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy earned Warner Bros. nearly $3 billion in box office worldwide.

However, it is the DVD sales and rental market that makes Warner a lot of money.

Peter Jackson is best at playing private goods.

A lot of content is not suitable for playing in movie theaters. He will stuff it all into the DVD version and print the director's extended version.

The total length of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy was 10 hours, but the DVD version was abruptly extended to 12 hours.

Can movie fans not buy it?

This is something that you can't see in the cinema at all.

"King Kong" is the same reason.

187 minutes for the cinema version, 220 minutes for the DVD version!

Want to see more of actress Naomi Watts?

Want to see more of her interactions with the gorillas?

Please watch the DVD version!

In the previous life, after the DVD version of "King Kong" was launched, in just one week, the sales volume exceeded 100 million US dollars, setting a historical record. Sales within one year were US$470 million, and about 30% of costs, channel fees, labor costs, dividends, and transportation fees were removed...

DVD sales alone are enough to pay back!

Fernando Baden breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good."

Tang En said solemnly: "However, you can't be lenient. You must continue to put pressure on Peter Jackson!"